Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H ram voltage enquiry

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It should be fine, but you may not get the absolute best overclock out of it.

Most RAM runs fine at 1.8V, but you may have to loosen the timings for a decent overclock on that RAM.
 
You dont need to overclock the RAM to overclock on this motherboard... just set it to "unlinked" which locks the RAM at 800Mhz (or whatever you want to set it at) and adjust the FSB to what ever you want.
 
You can use the unlinked feature, but it runs significantly slower as it's not really unlinked, it just calculates a divider and uses that from the next boot. That's why the RAM settings are not always exactly what you set them to on reboot.

It's fine, but not optimal.
 
"significantly slower" Ive benchmarked both linked and unlinked and found no performance loss when "unlinked" as lomg as memory is running at full speed.
 
Vegetarian said:
"significantly slower" Ive benchmarked both linked and unlinked and found no performance loss when "unlinked" as long as memory is running at full speed.
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That's fine, but you can't have it both ways.

If you need to run unlinked because your RAM won't run at full speed at 1.8V then you will take a significant performance hit by running unlinked. If your RAM will run at full speed with 1.8V then why not run linked?

I appreciate what you are saying, and I agree, up to the point where your RAM won't run full speed with the 1.8V through it, at which point you will not get the optimal overclock. What this does mean is that you need to be very careful when buying RAM with this board.
 
Again Ive benchmarked.... 3ghz

Linked 3ghz running Ram 1:1 on a 10 multi

Unlinked 3ghz running RAM locked at 800mhz

Unlinked is 3 secs faster in SuperPi
 
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